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I just wanted to say that your site changed the way I view baseball completely. I feel that I enjoy it more, understand it more and I live and breathe it year round. I have always enjoyed your contribution and yes like most regular readers noticed that the frequency and depth of your posts had waned over the past year or two. But your body of work is first rate and I very much enjoyed your book ” A Cheaters Guide”, and I was very excited when you were given space in the Seattle PI(?). Finally, a sabermetric voice in the MSM.

I’ve loved the “USSMariner Events”. They truly have become “events”. The buzz is all over town in regards to your site. The highest compliment that I can pay to you and to USSMariner is that your writing “matters” and the blog site USSMariner “matters”. In my opinion (for whatever it’s worth) few things do matter, including most of the drivel that is put forward as baseball analysis in the MSM.

This makes me suprisingly sad. I have read your baseball writing for the past 5 years. A time frame which included my post-graduate training and part of my post-post graduate training. It’s as much a part of my routine as brushing my teeth.

I started checking out USSM in part due to the quality baseball conversation that I can’t here in the UK, and partly because it’s cool that someone I went to elementary school with had such a massive internet presence. The baseball chat kept me coming back every day, and I’ll certainly miss the voice of succinct reason. Thanks, man.

After I discovered Rob Neyer (and subsequently BP) I couldn’t read the Seattle paper’s coverage of the M’s anymore, because it was just so WRONG. You guys filled that void and more. Thanks for being right so many times.

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Hi! I’m Derek Zumsteg

In current order of time spent, I'm a Product Manager at large, followed distantly by biking, reading, and writing.
My last truly cool trip was to South Africa, which I highly recommend.